Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the problem of placing sequences into a given phylogenetic tree, called a “backbone tree”. EPA-ng and pplacer are the two most accurate phylogenetic placement ...

Arb for Mac is a powerful bioinformatics tool designed for phylogenetic tree analysis and sequence alignment. It offers advanced visualization, editing. Arb for Mac is a specialized bioinformatics ...

Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

There are so many more questions we have yet to answer in Zoology so grab some fossils, fire up the DNA sequences, and bring your best hypothesis as we try to figure out where all the baby eels are, ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...

New research headed by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has demonstrated how the three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary ...

ABSTRACT: Piptoporellus baudonii, previously known as Laetiporus baudonii, is an African species that was considered to be a sister species to Laetiporus sulphureus, another European species known for ...

T-REX was created in response to requests to be able to easily link phylogenetic and phenotypic information together and yield insights from this. This package consists of a GUI-enabled phylogenetic ...